ICANN has now completely thrown out anything that resembled fairness in the "testbed" process. "If your model was picked, and didn't work, just change it." How is this now a testbed? And at that, what of applicants who were turned down because ICANN didn't like the model to begin with?

It's time to allow the remaining applicants entry to see how they will do, now that we know that this isn't a stability issue any longer. Things could not have gone worse, yet the Internet is still functioning fine. The testbed has proven that there's no risk to adding new TLDs, even when they completely fail to live up to their potential.

Unless, of course, this is a case of protecting those already chosen from more competition...